From New Scientist:
John Cacappio of the University of Chicago and his colleagues reckon that loneliness can spread through society like an infection.
Their study, published in this month's issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, draws on a large group of people living in a town in Massachusetts that had already been assigned as part of a heart health study.
This group of around 5,000 were given questionnaires to assess their loneliness every four years or so, enabling the researcher to track any "spread" in this gloomy emotion.
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